All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
LUDWIG VON MISESAll they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
LUDWIG VON MISESGerman Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
LUDWIG VON MISESIt is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESSociety has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
LUDWIG VON MISESAll people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
LUDWIG VON MISESIn such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
LUDWIG VON MISESHistorical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
LUDWIG VON MISESIf we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
LUDWIG VON MISESGovernment is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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